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Patrick Kennedy: Marijuana industry will be the next tobacco industry
Project SAM Chairman Patrick Kennedy told MSNBC that the United States needs to halt efforts to legalize marijuana:
A response to Steven Chapman of the Chicago Tribune
This column by Project SAM director Kevin Sabet appeared in The Huffington Post Jan. 24.
Tired of the loaded language? So are we.
Two members of SAM’s board of directors, Kevin Sabet and David Frum, have been named “legalization’s biggest enemies” by Rolling Stone.
Kennedy kicks off anti-marijuana effort in Colorado
As The Daily Caller reported Jan. 11, 2013: “Kennedy also discussed his family’s struggles with alcoholism and his own addiction to Oxycontin, using the story to illustrate the danger he sees in lessening marijuana’s historical stigma as a very dangerous drug.
Patrick Kennedy sees ‘mad rush’ to legalize marijuana
As the Washington Times reported Jan. 11, 2013: “What I want is to slow this train down and kind of begin a discussion before other states rush to judgment, which is what I think happened here,” Patrick Kennedy said (during the formal launch of Project SAM at The Denver Press Club).
Patrick Kennedy’s unexpected challenge to marijuana legalization
Ed Gogek, a self-described “lifelong partisan Democrat” and physician who serves on the board of Keep AZ Drug Free, published an op-ed in the New York Times arguing that his party should not embrace legalization. Democrats have long pilloried Republicans for ignoring science, he wrote, but they’ve done just that when it comes to marijuana: […]
Former addict Democrat Patrick Kennedy joins opponents of legalizing marijuana in the U.S.
As the IrishCentral.com reported Jan. 11, 2013: “Former Rhode Island Congressman and recovering addict Patrick Kennedy is spearheading the fight against the legalization of marijuana in the United States through his new nonprofit organization, ‘Smart Approaches to Marijuana.’”
Pot opponents regroup after Washington, Colorado votes
Today, the Associated Press reported on the launch of Project SAM, and here are a few passages and quotes that help tell our story:
Kennedy on marijuana: ‘Destroys the brain and expedites psychosis’
Project SAM Chairman Patrick Kennedy recently spoke with The Washington Post. As the news organization noted Jan. 8:
Frum on CNN: Marijuana too risky a choice
Last week, I joined the board of a new organization to oppose marijuana legalization: Smart Approaches to Marijuana. The group is headed by former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy and includes Kevin Sabet, a veteran of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under President Obama. The new group rejects the “war on drugs” model. It […]
Former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy leads campaign against legal pot
As Alex Dobuzinskis of Reuters reports today in the first news story about Project SAM:
Frum: The perils of legalizing pot
We’re not doing well providing work for our young people. When they do find work, they’ll probably earn less than their parents, probably form less stable intimate relationships, and age into more uncertain retirements. But, hey, don’t say we do nothing for our kids. Instead of work, marriage, and security, we can offer pot, porn, […]